What does the majority of the youth of today aspire to be? Boxer or MMA fighter?

Since boxing is way harder to become pro at and make a living, I would say MMA.
 
ice hockey.
nah. i kid, its definitely boxing. mma is on the rise all over still, though.... but the boxing gyms are full of kids
 
rofl how am I racist. Most boxers are black and uneducated, most NFL players are black and have college degrees. Where's the racism?

Just like Joe Rogan said, using something that smart people discovered doesn't necessarily make you smart.

You also equate college with intelligence. Good job.
 
How many boxers do you know with college degrees? Wlad, who else lol? Now lets compare that to other sports. NFL, almost all players have completed 4 years of college, majority of NBA players have completed 4 years of college or atleast 1-2 years. Most american born NHL players have completed college.

Don't kid yourself.

Just go play some James Toney videos and you'll see. He's the first american athlete I have ever seen needing subtitles because he can't speak english properly.

Hahaha, most NFL and NBA players HAVE TO play college ball before turning pro to get exposure. Most of them barely make the GPA and test requirements, and they usually pick easy majors once they're admitted. Plus colleges start recruiting them early on in high school, so they have the incentive to try harder.

But with boxing, even if you demonstrate superhuman abilities in the ring compared to other sports, colleges aren't allowed to have "real" boxing teams (did away with it decades ago when a kid died, and now it's only allowed as a "club sport"), so they can't recruit kids.

Theodore Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway both boxed in college when it was allowed (both kept it up as they got older). Nelson Mandela boxed as a boy as well.
 
Was there any chance this wouldn't turn into a boxing vs MMA thread? Didn't think so.

MMA hasn't reached the point where a kid can go to his local MMA gym and pick the sport up the way they can with boxing. Most fighters still excel in a different combat sport first and then come into MMA as a way to make money from it. Nor is it a sport where a kid from a poor background can go into his local gym and train. It does mean that MMA has a large pool of potential fighters to dip into though.

MMA really needs to organise itself as a sport better (rather than a number of separate promotions) and organise amateur competitions for kids the way boxing does. That will give it a steady stream of specialist fighters ready to pick the sport up as a professional.
 
I think mma has been a tremendous let down, mma is marketed as cage fighting and no holds barred, nothing could be further from the truth, most of mma is basically wrestling, mma has never evolved, boxing is head and shoulders above mma, just to bad a lot of boxers these days arent exciting, if david haye was in a lineup somewhere without his belt nobody would know who he was, at one time the heavyweight champion was the most reckonised athlete in the world.
 
Sounds about right.



What does that have anything to do with this thread? We're discussing the youth's preferences. Not what current fighters prefer.



MMA might be more popular in the US at the moment but that doesn't necessarily reflect on what young kids want to be when they grow up.

Going back to what Xcutioner said, race/social class plays a big part in what kids aspire to be.
I remember watching this Christmas special last year where a large group of young, poor urban kids (primarily comprised of african americans and latinos) were paid a visit by Floyd Mayweather and the kids all jumped up and got excited as hell. Now if, instead of Floyd, Chuck Liddell or GSP or Brock had walked in, I doubt they would've been as excited.

Likewise, if it was a group of middle class, suburban kids (comprised of caucasians or asians), and Floyd walked in, they might not be as excited. But if it was Chuck, Brock, etc, they'd be more enthusiastic.

In fact, now that I think about it, I think many young kids (elementary school age) aspire to be professional wrestlers more than boxers or MMA fighters. Keep in mind that, at that impressionable age, seeing jacked wrestlers surrounded by adoring fans and wrestling divas in bras/thongs is more appealing to them than the other two (boxing/mma).


I agree with this, when I was young, hulk hogan and the ultimate warrior were the shit, I had the hogan wrestling buddy. but i also watched boxing
 
If TUF is any reflection of the next generation of MMA fighters then it's not saying much. The best will still come from 'one dimensional' backgrounds, mostly wrestling and wrestling is struggling to find funding in the US.
the ones that go on tuf are really fringe up and comers that with the right training can be polished in to a contender, fighters like cain will never be on that show
 
Theres a Boxing gym 2mins away from me and a lot of kids go there to train since it only cost 50p for an hours lesson, while there's an MMA gym literally 10mins walk away and they charge
 
Theres a Boxing gym 2mins away from me and a lot of kids go there to train since it only cost 50p for an hours lesson, while there's an MMA gym literally 10mins walk away and they charge
 
No college scholarships for boxing perhaps?

so you think if they offered a scholarship for boxing guys like b-hop, james toney, winky wright, etc. who can't even speak proper english would get accepted? rofl. Go watch those "I am a fighter" promos on youtube most of them got kicked out of school and took up boxing because of that rofl.


And they don't offer scholarships for boxing because it is not a popular sport and would generate ZERO revenue for the school.
 
only one sport has had a mensa member in it and it ain't mma
 
yea, exactly, a video of little uneducated dumbasses cussing every other word and acting like complete tools, "fucking tight'. What a fucking joke.

oh the ironing
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oh the ironing
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fuckin tight, so cool to belong to a camp that put plaster in a guys gloves, fuckin tight. it's cool to support cheaters of the worst kind!! yea, fuckin tight!

nice dubs btw, tool, are those your kids, y u mad?

supporting cheaters and acting like retards is cool, lets post it on youtube! ignorant, uneducated, retards.

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